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Founded the same year the French impressionists had their first exhibition, Leeds Fine Artists – whose members come from all over Yorkshire – are still holding annual shows 141 years later.

The latest exhibition, Insight, which includes works by eight Huddersfield artists, opens at the Crossley Gallery in Dean Clough, Halifax, on Saturday, May 9.

It will offer the chance to view more than 100 paintings, prints, tapestries and ceramics.

LFA is one of the region’s oldest arts organisations in the north and has around 60 members, all of whom had to submit work for scrutiny by a panel before being allowed membership.

This year’s annual show is featuring the work of 38 members, who range in age from their 20s to 80s, and covers an eclectic range of styles, both figurative and abstract.

Among the work on show will be a tapestry entitled On the Shoulders of Giants, created by Dewsbury textile artist Shirley Ross, who is president of LFA.

Shirley’s description of how she came to develop the work offers an insight into the creative process.

She said: “I was sitting at home thinking about the next piece of work and staring at the set of our couch, upholstered in a dark grey, suede-like fabric, where the pile had been disturbed by the previous sitter.

“There was an image left behind, a landscape. In the landscape there were familiar shapes.

“The more I looked the more shapes I saw and that was the start of it. Sketches were made, developed, redrawn, scaled into a working drawing and there it was.

“All I needed to do was make it exist as a woven tapestry, which took roughly the next eight or nine months.”

Woodland Path In Grimescar by Jane Burgess

Shirley is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and has combined a teaching career with freelance work. A number of her large-scale tapestries have been commissioned by public bodies. A breast cancer survivor, she is also the founder of Art for Life UK, a fund-raising initiative that sells art to raise money for cancer research.

A major exhibition and auction last year raised more than £11,000 for Cancer Research UK and the charity is now looking for a venue to stage a second event.

Also in the show will be work by Holmfirth painter Kate Masterson, the organisation’s youngest member, who studied at Greenhead College before graduating from De Montfort University in 2010; Jo Myerscough, from Lepton, who produces pottery patterned with smoke and flame; Ian Watson, an art teacher from Lepton and painter; Michael Curgenven, a painter from Honley who produces abstract landscapes; Keith Mountain, also from Lepton, a landscape and seascape artist; Pauline Meade, a Marsden printmaker; tonal and figurative painter Jane Burgess from Birkby; and Keith Harrison, from Hepworth, who is inspired by industrial and urban landscapes.

The LFA have exhibited at Huddersfield’s North Light Gallery for many years but moved to Dean Clough following a successful three-month exhibition there in 2013/14.

The Crossley Gallery is normally open 10am until 5pm seven days a week and the show is on until May 23.